The Telegraph During a 50-day offensive, Israeli ground forces and strike aircraft have bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip. As well as Hamas bunkers and rocket launching facilities, civilian homes, schools and hospitals have all been hit. About half of Gaza’s 1.8 million people are children under the age of […]
The Telegraph The United States is poised to ask Britain and Australia to support air strikes in Northern Iraq, according to reports. President Obama is set to authorise airstrikes and aid drops around the Iraqi town of Amerli, home of Iraq’s Turkmen minority, where 12,000 people have been […]
RT Under the pretext of an ‘overt’ Russian threat, NATO is pushing for a ‘readiness action plan’ that will bring the Cold War military bloc closer to Russian borders than ever – even despite objections from some NATO members. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the 28-nation military […]
BBC US President Barack Obama has authorised surveillance flights over Syria in order to gain intelligence on the activities of Islamic State (IS). Correspondents say the move could mark the first step towards US air strikes inside Syria, where the jihadist group controls vast swathes of territory. The […]
The Local An 84-year-old woman originally from Turkey wearing a traditional headscarf was kicked to the ground on Thursday afternoon in an attack that was clearly motivated by anti-Islamic sentiments, according to a press release from Austria’s Islamic Religious Community Association (IGGiÖ). Police confirmed that they received a […]